Yeah, you're right. I mean, no one would have really cared if Peter Jackson had made Gandalf, say, "Blipkin the Magical" or Frodo "William." Or maybe if they had made Hannibal Lector "Billy McGee" in Silence of the Lambs, that would be fine too.
The point really being, these characters have perfectly good names (a lot of which are Japanese-sounding, but not actually Japanese), and do not need to be "Americanized" for the sake of high-action big-budget film. Most likely, they'll destroy other very important parts of the Evangelion series.
I mean, really. Asuka looks like some shitty X-Men character.
I don't think they were meant to be "dreams." They are very clearly a realization of Gendo's ultimate goal of instrumentality. I guess people really do hate serious philosophy and exposition in their cartoons and would rather watch robots fighting and fanservice.
The trouble comes, of course, when the crew gets into an argument over certain marital infidelities, kill each other, and the Martians living there take in the child that was conceived in space and raise him as their own, then send him back to Earth to cause a hippie revolution of a scale that man cannot even comprehend. (or grok)
Or maybe not.
--Stephen If it's one-way, I nominate the cast of "Space Cowboys." That was a terrible movie.
I'm sorry, CowboyNeal, but adding Korn to NFL Street is not "making it funky." It's "making it shitty." Now I have to deal with 5-string bass garbage if I ever want to play NFL Street. Hey, how about we add some Linkin Park to NBA Street? Or I know, how about we put "Sk8er Boi" on the Tony Hawk 5 soundtrack? These songs, besides being the bottom of the pop music barrel, don't even fit in these games.
"Godzilla" is in no way a poor translation to english. The original was "Gojira" and comes from the Japanese word for "gorilla" and "whale" ("gorira" and "kujira") repectively. A direct translation would have been something silly like "Whalrilla" or something. Instead, they used the brilliant "Godzilla," which turned the creature into some sort of divine lizard, which really fits Godzilla's character. Plus it even sounds like the original.
...actually wasn't from Napster, but about 2 months before the whole Napster thing caught on at my campus. I used Lycos' mp3 search to find a bunch of Beatles songs, and I think the first one I ended up downloading was a cover of "I am the Walrus" by none other than Jim Carey.
A very interesting experience indeed...it is actually close to the original, and includes Jim Carey proclaiming, "Yes, I've finally done it! I've ruined a timeless piece of art!"
You're going to want some sort of pricing range that keeps things profitable for you, but doesn't keep gamers away that might not be able to afford games at home. You will probably want to go for more customers at a lower price, because the social "LAN-party" atmosphere is what makes such places fun. You probably won't want to do it on a hourly basis (who wants a time limit playing games?), and maybe have a monthly or yearly pass option available to those that want it. Really, your main profit should come from extras like snacks, just like movie theaters do.
Also, if you aren't setting this up in a town big enough, you can pretty much bet that it's going to fail relatively quickly.
The important question is, what is the frequency of the transmissions being sent back to Earth, and can we figure out how to interpret the data being sent? We don't want any sort of NASA cover-up of the Martians, now do we?
They're simply using this list to round up all the Linux users and present them to SCO on a silver platter (like Spiderman!). Then, when SCO wins the suit, Linux will be destroyed!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!!
This philosophy needs to be taught everywhere. If you are taught the theory behind the code, rather than just being taught C or Java, or whatever, you'll be a better programmer. You'll know how to program. For some reason, some people seem to think that, in order to "really" learn a language, you need to use it for 2 years or so, to "learn all its idiosyncrasies," or whatever. That's ridiculous. What these people are actually encountering when they complain are other programmers that don't know how to program well, and probably don't have much experience in the first place. Certainly there is a good amount of adjustment period between languages, but it's certainly not upwards of around 2 years or more.
Learn computer science, not computer languages, and you'll never worry about being obsolete.
"Geeks! Geeks! Geeks!"
"Not my problem!"
"Hold on to your a-!"
"Comptuer Terminal Under!!"
Think of how useful it would be! Plus you could have that starfield going all the time.
Rockstar can't be far behind in this suit. GTA III's been out for how long now, and one of the best features of the game is that it includes Crazy Taxi in the game! Or at least a Crazy Taxi like game.
--Stephen Maybe their parents won't let them play it.
Left = opposite(Right) => copyleft = opposite(copyright)
The biggest assumption this letter makes is that the FSF forces this GPL requirement on everyone who writes software, completely ignoring the fact that the person who writes the code decides to use the GPL. Mr. McBride creates the scenario where the FSF controls the copyright law like a vicious dictator, forcing all software to the GPL (by possibly firebombing "proprietary clinics"), creating anarchy. I guess this makes sense then: "There really is no middle ground. The future of the global economy hangs in the balance."
I feel like I should pop into my X-wing or something and blow up Stallman's house.
Very, very similar to my mother, except EVERYTHING with the computer is randomly "upload" or "download." For example, I've been asked to "upload the internet to this computer" (hook the modem up). I can foresee being asked to upload a hard drive or "download this disk." --Stephen
I'll agree with your comment on STN-J, but the show is certainly not boring. Watch it a second time, and (like most things) it will go much quicker. Something about how people remember TV. For example:
Plot Point 1: around eps. 6-10, we come to the realization that Robin's power makes her eyes unfocus, so it's inaccurate. She needs glasses. The end.
Nope. This happens around episode 4.
Plot Point 2: around eps. 16-20, Robin finds a piece of wood which is the "Ultimate Spell". But, she already had said spell, and the piece of wood was really a Cracker Jack prize.
I believe this happens instead around episode 12.
You also fail to mention that the other episodes are mystery dramas, like a lot of American programs. I won't give away what happens (you already have, asshole), but the latter half of the series gets much more exciting than "Witch Crime of the Week."
--Stephen
In addition to the sister post, things are also usually made a lot clearer when the actual dialogue talks about/plays with the Japanese language. For example, often times there's a lot of wordplay or dialectical issues that are difficult/impossible to translate correctly (ie a Kansai accent being translated as a Southern drawl...wtf is that?). e.g. FLCL is a show that doesn't dub into English very well. Back to the point about voice actors sounding different - most American movies that are exported have subtitles. The ones that don't are usually cheesy action movies. I remember seeing "Face/Off" where the voice actor for John Travolta was played by a Japanese man with a voice deeper than Barry White's. That's just wrong, folks.
Regardless, Witch Hunter Robin won't sound too bad dubbed if they get good actors, because it's a very dramatic show.
Really, when Family Guy started out, it really was a sort of copy of the Simpsons...but then after a while, it switched around and Simpsons began sort of copying Family Guy's gags and style.
Now we have an entire story from Treehouse of Horror that completely steals the plot line from an episode of Family Guy. What's worse is that the Family Guy episode was about 50x funnier.
You obviously haven't looked at The University of Chicago's CS Dept. (note that since this is U of C, there is no EE dept) The corresponding network manager is NSIT, which, IIRC, has nothing to do with the CS dept besides occasionally hiring an undergrad.
This makes a lot of sense, though, seeing as U of C's curriculum is a lot more theory based than most. A CS major's preliminary course is taught in Scheme. We use strange things like ML. Heck, the CS building is connected to the math building.
NSIT, like Princeton, also leaves something to be desired. Like the 2 or 3 major email malfunctions that occur every year.
Of course, the CS department's own machines do always seem to be running smoothly...
Hiragana is used mostly for: - parts of words that change with conjugation - words that have no/difficult kanji - children that don't know a lot of kanji - etc.
Katakana is used for: - emphasis (kind of like italics) - foriegn loan words, of which there are A LOT, e.g. (in romanji) Makudonarudo (McDonalds), konpyuutaa (computer), etc. --Stephen
Info: Japanese uses three different "classes" of writing: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Kanji are simply Chinese ideograms, but only about 2,000-3,000 are used on a regular basis. The Chinese use many more. The Japanese never invented their own writing system, and as such borrowed Chinese characters to phonetically represent their own language. Eventually, through calligraphical evolution (and laziness), the 45 or so Chinese characters used to represent phonetics evolved into two ultra-simplified versions. These are katakana and hiragana. At the same time, they started using the Chinese ideograms for their actual meaning, and kept their pronunciation. That same system is basically still in use today.
The Koreans use Chinese characters as well, even today. I'm not entirely certain how/if they evolved into the current Korean writing system.
--Stephen Korean fun fact #1355: 1/3 of all Koreans are named "Kim."
The Buddhists were right!! For those who may not know, the "AOM" sound that people make when they are meditating (you know, "a-ummmmmmm") is supposedly the sound the universe made when it was created.
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Yeah, you're right. I mean, no one would have really cared if Peter Jackson had made Gandalf, say, "Blipkin the Magical" or Frodo "William." Or maybe if they had made Hannibal Lector "Billy McGee" in Silence of the Lambs, that would be fine too.
The point really being, these characters have perfectly good names (a lot of which are Japanese-sounding, but not actually Japanese), and do not need to be "Americanized" for the sake of high-action big-budget film. Most likely, they'll destroy other very important parts of the Evangelion series.
I mean, really. Asuka looks like some shitty X-Men character.
--Stephen
I don't think they were meant to be "dreams." They are very clearly a realization of Gendo's ultimate goal of instrumentality. I guess people really do hate serious philosophy and exposition in their cartoons and would rather watch robots fighting and fanservice.
--Stephen
The trouble comes, of course, when the crew gets into an argument over certain marital infidelities, kill each other, and the Martians living there take in the child that was conceived in space and raise him as their own, then send him back to Earth to cause a hippie revolution of a scale that man cannot even comprehend. (or grok)
Or maybe not.
--Stephen
If it's one-way, I nominate the cast of "Space Cowboys." That was a terrible movie.
I'm sorry, CowboyNeal, but adding Korn to NFL Street is not "making it funky." It's "making it shitty." Now I have to deal with 5-string bass garbage if I ever want to play NFL Street. Hey, how about we add some Linkin Park to NBA Street? Or I know, how about we put "Sk8er Boi" on the Tony Hawk 5 soundtrack? These songs, besides being the bottom of the pop music barrel, don't even fit in these games.
--Stephen
"Godzilla" is in no way a poor translation to english. The original was "Gojira" and comes from the Japanese word for "gorilla" and "whale" ("gorira" and "kujira") repectively. A direct translation would have been something silly like "Whalrilla" or something. Instead, they used the brilliant "Godzilla," which turned the creature into some sort of divine lizard, which really fits Godzilla's character. Plus it even sounds like the original.
Brilliant, if you ask me.
--Stephen
...actually wasn't from Napster, but about 2 months before the whole Napster thing caught on at my campus. I used Lycos' mp3 search to find a bunch of Beatles songs, and I think the first one I ended up downloading was a cover of "I am the Walrus" by none other than Jim Carey.
A very interesting experience indeed...it is actually close to the original, and includes Jim Carey proclaiming, "Yes, I've finally done it! I've ruined a timeless piece of art!"
Good times.
--Stephen
You're going to want some sort of pricing range that keeps things profitable for you, but doesn't keep gamers away that might not be able to afford games at home. You will probably want to go for more customers at a lower price, because the social "LAN-party" atmosphere is what makes such places fun. You probably won't want to do it on a hourly basis (who wants a time limit playing games?), and maybe have a monthly or yearly pass option available to those that want it. Really, your main profit should come from extras like snacks, just like movie theaters do.
Also, if you aren't setting this up in a town big enough, you can pretty much bet that it's going to fail relatively quickly.
Good luck,
--Stephen
The important question is, what is the frequency of the transmissions being sent back to Earth, and can we figure out how to interpret the data being sent? We don't want any sort of NASA cover-up of the Martians, now do we?
--Stephen
I got Free Willy 2. The DVD.
That's fucked up.
--Stephen
They're simply using this list to round up all the Linux users and present them to SCO on a silver platter (like Spiderman!). Then, when SCO wins the suit, Linux will be destroyed!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!!
--Stephen
Learn computer science, not computer languages, and you'll never worry about being obsolete.
--Stephen
"Geeks! Geeks! Geeks!"
"Not my problem!"
"Hold on to your a-!"
"Comptuer Terminal Under!!"
Think of how useful it would be! Plus you could have that starfield going all the time.
Yeah, I'd rather have Megaweapon, though...
--Stephen
Rockstar can't be far behind in this suit. GTA III's been out for how long now, and one of the best features of the game is that it includes Crazy Taxi in the game! Or at least a Crazy Taxi like game.
--Stephen
Maybe their parents won't let them play it.
The biggest assumption this letter makes is that the FSF forces this GPL requirement on everyone who writes software, completely ignoring the fact that the person who writes the code decides to use the GPL. Mr. McBride creates the scenario where the FSF controls the copyright law like a vicious dictator, forcing all software to the GPL (by possibly firebombing "proprietary clinics"), creating anarchy. I guess this makes sense then:
"There really is no middle ground. The future of the global economy hangs in the balance."
I feel like I should pop into my X-wing or something and blow up Stallman's house.
--Stephen
Very, very similar to my mother, except EVERYTHING with the computer is randomly "upload" or "download."
For example, I've been asked to "upload the internet to this computer" (hook the modem up). I can foresee being asked to upload a hard drive or "download this disk."
--Stephen
Plot Point 1: around eps. 6-10, we come to the realization that Robin's power makes her eyes unfocus, so it's inaccurate. She needs glasses. The end.
Nope. This happens around episode 4.
Plot Point 2: around eps. 16-20, Robin finds a piece of wood which is the "Ultimate Spell". But, she already had said spell, and the piece of wood was really a Cracker Jack prize.
I believe this happens instead around episode 12.
You also fail to mention that the other episodes are mystery dramas, like a lot of American programs. I won't give away what happens (you already have, asshole), but the latter half of the series gets much more exciting than "Witch Crime of the Week."
--Stephen
Or crappy Rumiko Takahashi shows.
In addition to the sister post, things are also usually made a lot clearer when the actual dialogue talks about/plays with the Japanese language. For example, often times there's a lot of wordplay or dialectical issues that are difficult/impossible to translate correctly (ie a Kansai accent being translated as a Southern drawl...wtf is that?). e.g. FLCL is a show that doesn't dub into English very well.
Back to the point about voice actors sounding different - most American movies that are exported have subtitles. The ones that don't are usually cheesy action movies. I remember seeing "Face/Off" where the voice actor for John Travolta was played by a Japanese man with a voice deeper than Barry White's. That's just wrong, folks.
Regardless, Witch Hunter Robin won't sound too bad dubbed if they get good actors, because it's a very dramatic show.
--Stephen
Make sure you watch past episode 12!
You know, if you're going to post an Ask Slashdot, you could at least stop making words up.
--Stephen
I don't speak your crazy moon language.
Really, when Family Guy started out, it really was a sort of copy of the Simpsons...but then after a while, it switched around and Simpsons began sort of copying Family Guy's gags and style.
Now we have an entire story from Treehouse of Horror that completely steals the plot line from an episode of Family Guy. What's worse is that the Family Guy episode was about 50x funnier.
--Stephen
This makes a lot of sense, though, seeing as U of C's curriculum is a lot more theory based than most. A CS major's preliminary course is taught in Scheme. We use strange things like ML. Heck, the CS building is connected to the math building.
NSIT, like Princeton, also leaves something to be desired. Like the 2 or 3 major email malfunctions that occur every year.
Of course, the CS department's own machines do always seem to be running smoothly...
--Stephen
Hiragana is used mostly for:
- parts of words that change with conjugation
- words that have no/difficult kanji
- children that don't know a lot of kanji
- etc.
Katakana is used for:
- emphasis (kind of like italics)
- foriegn loan words, of which there are A LOT,
e.g. (in romanji) Makudonarudo (McDonalds), konpyuutaa (computer), etc.
--Stephen
Info: Japanese uses three different "classes" of writing: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Kanji are simply Chinese ideograms, but only about 2,000-3,000 are used on a regular basis. The Chinese use many more. The Japanese never invented their own writing system, and as such borrowed Chinese characters to phonetically represent their own language. Eventually, through calligraphical evolution (and laziness), the 45 or so Chinese characters used to represent phonetics evolved into two ultra-simplified versions. These are katakana and hiragana. At the same time, they started using the Chinese ideograms for their actual meaning, and kept their pronunciation. That same system is basically still in use today.
The Koreans use Chinese characters as well, even today. I'm not entirely certain how/if they evolved into the current Korean writing system.
--Stephen
Korean fun fact #1355: 1/3 of all Koreans are named "Kim."
The Buddhists were right!!
For those who may not know, the "AOM" sound that people make when they are meditating (you know, "a-ummmmmmm") is supposedly the sound the universe made when it was created.
Chalk one up for them, I suppose.
--Stephen
You misspelled "Mayor Daley Sr."
--Stephen